Re: Cousin's Visit

[Guest guest]

I'm glad to hear that everything went reasonably well.

One of my Aunts and Uncles came over and visited yesterday and I

actually enjoyed talking with them. Usually we don't have anything in

common.

One of their sons is a guy who used to be a trouble maker. He had a

drug problem, and they forced him to go into rehab. After that, he

actually did quit with the drugs, " got religion " and joined the

Navy. When he got out, he did a lot of work for his church and

continued to attend church services and Bible study regularly.

He really did turn himself around completely. His one mistake was the

woman he chose to marry. They had four daughters together but she

cheated on him and did some other nasty things.

I won't go into details,(except to say that she had threatened to

poison him to death) but they recently got divorced with a court

ordered mediator still to determine who should get the house, who

should get the kids, and who should pay child support to whom.

My cousin is working two jobs and his ex-wife is sort of just goofing

around with her new beau. The mediator announced yesterday that she

would recommend to the judge that my cousin would get both the house

and the kids due to the ex-wife's seeming indifference about the

issue.

The ex-wife got angry and stormed and yelled at the mediator and

threw things at her and ranted that she wished she HAD poisoned my

cousin.

Now, the ex-wife had been trying to get a restraining order against

my God-fearing cousin, but the mediator announced that she would

recommend AGAINST the order, but WOULD recommend a restraining order

against HER of my cousin chose to get one.

AND, she would have to pay him child support money.

So he's going to have a good year, hopefully.

Tom

Administrator

The visit didn't go as badly as I had feared. They arrived about on

time and stayed for about 2 hours before they and my mother went out

to lunch. I stayed home saying my teeth were bothering me, which was

not entirely untrue (the pulled tooth site is fine, but the cold

weather and cold water is always tough on my sensitive teeth, which I

may have the worst few replaced with implants this spring or summer).

They came back and stayed another hour or so before going home.

They were pretty well mannered, including her son, so that was nice.

The biggest problem was my cousin's use of pronouns. She would use he

or him when referring to any of a number of men (her husband, son,

son-in-law, father) so it was often hard to follow her train of

thought. One had to think about it sometimes to discern who exactly

she was talking about.

Sometime after New Year's they may come back, but I don't know if

they will.